Topic: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool - page 436. (Read 2591964 times)

I never had Ice Fury device in hand. If you bfgminer version is buggy, try different one...

I don't believe Ice Fury's work on anything lower than 3.9.0 as there was no support them, 3.9.0 was just as buggy.

There's nothing to do with p2pool. It's bfgminer bug, try different version. I myself using bfgminer 3.8.0 and it has been online mining 24/7 on p2pool for like 6 months.

I am not sure if this refers to what CartmanSPC is saying but my Bfgminer sometimes gets stuck requesting work from my P2Pool which is on the same network to the point were the miners shutdown and I have to restart bfgminer again. When I hash against the other fee based miners this happens. I also notice this happening on my ASIC USB miners as well with P2Pool only.

Yeah finally someone I agree with!

This topic is repeated every 10 pages or so.  Please go back and read about it over and over and over and over again.

You fail at math and reading.

you would have to change the miner, not the pool for this.
this also happens for other pools, but not that frequently. a p2pool share is generated each ~30 seconds, therefore you see it alot more than on BTC (~10 minutes).
there is nothing wrong with it, its just a notification.

Would it be possible to suppress the "longpoll/stratum from pool request work restarts" from the miner console?

Miners don't see that on other pools and it confuses them.

Sounds like youre washed your brain with this, open your eyes.

I just punched 100 GH into a mining calculator to get a sense of the magnitude of current mining earnings for that hash rate. Obviously this fluctuates all the time with exchange rate (and to being with depends on which exchange rate you use, etc.), so just treat it as an approximate number.

No, it really doesn't. Everyone on p2pool has orphans. That's the nature of a block chain with a 30 second target, and is unavoidable. The p2pool shares are just used to divide up the bitcoins (as with other pools). As long as your orphan rate isn't higher than others', you get your fair share of the bitcoins.

Yes there is variance. You might get an orphan, which makes your earnings go down in the short run. But others are also constantly getting orphans, which makes your earnings go up.  With a little patiences it balances out and ends up in your favor.

If you want immediate gratification, yes go ahead look elsewhere. If you want better returns over time, stay with p2pool.

Did you even look at my pool? No you didn't so please shut up! Thank you!

I have also been mining with the same gear for about 8 months now so I have made more than my money back in just mining alone. With the new gear I bought I will very likely make more than my money back on that too. I can understand if you are just getting into Bitcoin yourself, great, but us old timers don't care as much.

Over half a year ive been mining on p2pool....

See the numbers, with 120Gh i get more from other pools thats it.

What ever you say, it doesnt change the fact. Numbers wont lie.

500 Gh is the min gear one should have to be able to use p2pool now. Then should have atleast 8 shares a day.

With 120Gh -> 0-3 shares a day, one orphan means 30-50% off.

If that is your idea of good pool for 120Gh - dont tell me.

You MUST be vigilant with P2Pool, you aren't going to see the real profit from it until you have run it for at least 30 days.

Note, this is from the following post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-guide-for-mining-efficiently-on-p2pool-includes-fud-repellent-and-faq-153232

Patience

If you are beginning on P2Pool you should expect irregular payments which can be frustrating. P2Pool is attracting more and more hashrate (from a low 200GH/s in March 2013 to a high 1.4TH/s in July 2013) but its variance is still somewhat high.

First you should be prepared to mine for a couple of days to check that your configuration is good enough (study the efficiency value displayed by your node's main page). If your efficiency is near or above 100%, you can expect more income on P2Pool than in most traditional pools. The only question for you is how long you are willing to wait for variance becoming negligible. On P2Pool with the current hashrate, you should expect to be in the 80-120% luck range in a couple of weeks. I've never seen P2Pool get <80% luck during more than a month. In 6 months I've seen both near 120% luck in a month and near 80% luck in another. As I wrote elsewhere: add your hashrate by joining us and variance will go down!

Note: P2Pool's payment method is PPLNS, with its current configuration you have to wait approximately 72 hours (on Bitcoin, this changes with other coins) to get the first "full" payments. These payments are mined coins (unlike most other pools), they are usable after 120 confirmations not 6 (but you get them as soon as the block is found which makes them usable as quickly as most other pools).

Bitcoin mining isn't just about the number of hashes you can get out of your gear, it's also based on luck. There are still some people to this day who have been lucky enough to get more bitcoins than what they would normally get if the mined and that doesn't matter if you are mining at 335MH/s or 3TH/s.

I am not sure where you get 23$ a day from? I think my P2Pool costs me less than that a day, the computer I am using is fan-less and only uses at the most 3watts of power. Since I pay for my internet already the cost of internet is really marginal.

Just as your name account status points out, you are a "newbie", you don't know what your talking about. When you have some RL experience come back and lets talk.

Hello Forum. This is my first post here and i hope it is the right place  

Can anybody tell me, how a p2pool-node is "defined", by his IP, his payout-address or by some data stored in the data-dir?

i asked, because i want to migrate a p2pool-node from one hardware-machine to another and i dont want to setup a new node. i want to MIGRATE the node with all its shares and so on.

i know i can copy the data dir from the old node to the new one. but is it still the same node for the p2pool network?

Thank you!

Olli

They're actually not on the same network, the P2Pool node is hosted at a large datacenter, my miner is at home on a business broadband connection.  I'm about 64ms rtt away.  I'm mining with about 450 GH/s.  I was thinking the ASICs would be more busy mining and less busy reporting to cgminer 'results' -- IE, I'd keep them heads-down mining by not having them report proof of work as often.  But I suspect the reporting every few seconds probably isn't much of a slowdown, with new work every ~30sec, they have to pause a bit anyway...

Thanks for the input, I was mainly trying to verify my understanding -- mostly academic, I kinda like knowing from the graphs it *is* doing something by reporting 

--Zach

One downside is that you won't see any evidence if things aren't working. In fact I'm not sure how the miners work exactly but it seems like they might not failover under some conditions if they don't have the opportunity to try get new work and have it fail, so your miners might continue mining on a down pool.